Sentences with phrase «on dramatic reforms»
Albany leaders reached an agreement on dramatic reforms to day care oversight in response to a Daily News series on hidden dangers in city child care facilities.
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As economist Jack Mintz has pointed out, the Trump tax reforms mean U.S. taxation on new investment will soon encounter the third - best rate among OECD countries (a dramatic improvement from the 14th position), besting Canada, stuck in 12th place.
President Obama has called on China to release Liu, noting that political reform in the country «has not kept pace» with «dramatic progress in economic reform».
Indeed, a protest against an EU in serious need of democratic reform would be less dramatic than a vote based on the nativist feelings core to the FN's ideological message.
Reforming a dysfunctional Roman curia which is, by various accounts, sclerotic, lazy, factional, self - serving, secretive or actively corrupt will be high up on the to - do list, but so may a decisive and dramatic public gesture, signalling the church's sorrow and repentance for its crimes.
Cuomo also talked a bit about the «dramatic» ethics reform he's working on with legislative leaders, although he didn't offer much in the way of details on that, other than to say: «Is dramatic reform hard to accept and hard to pass?
The dramatic reform package — called the «Clean Up Albany Act of 2011» — creates an independent Joint Commission on Public Ethics with «robust enforcement powers» to investigate both the executive and legislative branches of government.
Nick Clegg has said there needs to be «fair reform» after the Liberal Democrats performed a dramatic U-turn on the so - called «bedroom tax».
«All of the people that work on this issue, the good government groups and watchdogs, think at this point you need dramatic reform given what has happened in Albany.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is no longer pushing the dramatic education reforms he was advocating a few years ago, and recently has placed his focus on fighting the Trump administration, a battle in which the teachers union will be a likely ally.
ALBANY — Calling his government reform proposal «the whole loaf,» «the ultimate remedy,» «the most aggressive ethics reform we've ever seen» and «the most dramatic and aggressive [package] in the country,» Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday reiterated his suggestion he could shut down the government if legislators don't approve a state budget that includes the plan.
Negotiations between the Liberal Democrats and the other parties resumed today after yesterday's dramatic events which saw Gordon Brown announce his resignation and the Conservatives offer a referendum on electoral reform.
In addition, our newest and most dramatic success story is that under State Chairman Bill Merrell, the Reform Party of New York has gained ballot access and made a huge impact on New York politics.
The remarkable transition in Tennessee shows that states are capable of dramatic reform when the political leadership is committed to focusing public attention on the problem.
Had the reform movement sparked by the Risk report led to real improvements in academic achievement, it would have had a dramatic impact on the already strong economy.
Their earlier work on this topic includes School Turnarounds: A Review of Cross-Sector Evidence on Dramatic Organizational Improvement (Center on Innovation and Improvement, 2007), and Julie Kowal and Emily Ayscue Hassel, Turnarounds with New Leaders and Staff (Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2005).
Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.
The second wave of reform took the form of school restructuring, and combined three complementary elements: (a) a call for higher and common expectations for ALL students, (b) an emphasis on new and more challenging teaching practices, and (c) dramatic changes in the organization and management of public schools (Elmore, 1990).
Washington's application included new teacher and principal evaluations; a focus on science, math and technology; and a new school accountability system to force struggling schools to make dramatic reforms.
Kingsland, blogging this year on the Education Week website, sparked controversy by challenging superintendents of struggling school districts to relinquish their systems instead of trying endless reforms: «Rid yourself of the notion that your current opinions on curriculum, teacher evaluation, technology, or anything else will be the foundation for dramatic gains in student achievement.
The dramatic reforms come as part of a government drive to improve schools», pupils» and employers» confidence in the qualifications, ensuring that young people have the knowledge and skills needed to go on to work and further study.
The Mind Trust and Public Impact developed the report with the assistance of a panel of experts on education reform, charter and independent schools, philanthropic involvement in the charter sector and non-education sectors that have experienced dramatic innovation.
In a dramatic move that demonstrates that corporate «school reform» is still on the attack against unions in the nation's largest cities, the Philadelphia «School Reform Commission» late on October 6, 2014 announced that it was canceling the contract with the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers reform» is still on the attack against unions in the nation's largest cities, the Philadelphia «School Reform Commission» late on October 6, 2014 announced that it was canceling the contract with the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Reform Commission» late on October 6, 2014 announced that it was canceling the contract with the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT).
February 2012 — The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research found that four years after undergoing dramatic reform efforts, including turnarounds, low - performing elementary schools in Chicago closed the achievement gap in test scores by almost half in reading and two - thirds in math compared to similar schools that did not receive intervention.
What has not received much attention, but is a more dramatic reform, was the decision to reorient the district so that its schools and instructional approach are focused on building 21st century skills.
«This finding about the importance of tutoring is in line with other recent evidence pointing to dramatic gains from intensive tutoring on its own, suggesting a good place to start for effective and practical reform at traditional public schools,» wrote the authors, Julia Chabrier of J - Pal North America, Sarah Cohodes of Teachers College Columbia University, and Philip Oreopoulos of the economics department at the University of Toronto.
Opinions on schools: A team of journalists from the Orlando Sentinel demonstrated last week beyond any doubt whatsoever that dramatic reform in Florida's Tax Credit Scholarship Program is desperately needed, and that it should be implemented quickly, before any more students in the program are damaged any further.
So far, we've discussed individual tax reform, but the most dramatic changes made by the bill are on the corporate side.
Credit card reform arrives in the form of the Credit CARD Act — The most sweeping credit card changes ever are being imposed on credit card issuers, which in the course of complying, are making dramatic changes in consumers» credit card accounts — not all of them welcome... (See Credit card reform law goes in effect)
Credit card reform arrives in the form of the Credit CARD Act — The most sweeping credit card changes ever are being imposed on credit card issuers, which in the course of complying, are making dramatic changes in consumers» credit card accounts — not all of them welcome... (See Credit card reform law goes in effect)
As the justice committee takes evidence on the impact of legal aid reforms the figures already show dramatic changes
India, with 21 % of the global burden of disease but only 6 % of hospital bed capacity, has been left behind Asian neighbors Thailand, Indonesia, China on UHC, Bali added, calling for a dramatic and innovative healthcare reform process in the country.
In asking for this dramatic civil law reform — and not insisting on even more dramatic constitutional change — the political parties and the mainstream gay and lesbian groups have pitched it right.
Dramatic changes to the MID were included in recommendations of the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, released late last year, which among other things called for converting the deduction to a credit and capping allowable amounts.